Peripherals

Lily needs a good bluetooth headset because she spends a lot of time on the road. Leo says that wired is always better than bluetooth, but the best Bluetooth headsets are the Jawbone, and the Blueant Q3.

Lily has a Samsung Galaxy Note 3. She loves the huge screen but says that there's a huge learning curve to it. Leo says that's likely because of all the pointless stuff that Samsung has loaded it up with. S-Voice is an example of that. Leo prefers Google's voice control. She can disable it in the Android's "Language and Input" settings. Choose "US English" as the default language. Lily could even root the phone or just tap the microphone button in the search bar and speak into that.

Dave recently lost his Bose Bluetooth headset, and wants to know what he should get to replace it. Leo says that Bose is about as good as he can get, but there are plenty of options out there. BlueAnt, Plantronics, and Jawbone are all excellent options.

Jonathan is thinking about digitizing home videos for his family and is wondering what form of media to put them on since his family uses iPods and tablets, etc. Leo says that in that case, putting them up on YouTube is a good idea and he can just keep the channel private. It also means that anyone can watch it. Making it available for download means that he'd have to format it for different versions depending on what device is being used. Leo says he won't have that issue with streaming.

Paul has a Bluetooth Speaker adapter, but his Mac tries to pair with it when he doesn't want it to. Leo says the only thing he can do is turn off Bluetooth on the Mac to prevent it from pairing. Leo doesn't know of any way to tell the Mac to not pair with a visible and previously paired Bluetooth device.

Sandra wants to get an Epson Workforce Pro, but doesn't know which model to get. Leo says that the Artisan brand is great for home, but it's been replaced by the Expression. Leo uses the Epson Workforce 3540.

Donald upgraded his MacBook Pro to OS X Mavericks, but now he can't print. He has the printer connected to a PC, and is using Printer Sharing in Windows to print from the Mac. Leo says that Donald will have to delete and then re-add his printer.

Valerie wants to know if she can print something from her Android phone. Leo says she can, using Google Cloud Print. It uses the Internet and would let her print from anywhere in the world, but she would need a printer that supports it. She can also send it to Kinkos. Apple has AirPrint for the iPad and iPhone as well.

Mike has several mobile devices and would like just one charger that can handle all of them. Leo says that the Charlie Charger does that. It's a commercial charger that handles up to six phones. Unfortunately, with Charlie Charger the more devices he connects, the more the amperage drops.

Mike needs one that can devote a certain number of amps to each port. Scosche makes a 10 amp charger, giving two amps for each of the 5 ports, which should work great for Mike.

Nef's keyboard is suddenly typing strange letter and numbers. Leo says to be sure that the numlock or capslock isn't enabled. Keyboards can also get dirty and that could cause it. Keyboards are dirt cheap, and he can buy one and make sure it's just the keyboard that's wearing out. He can plug it in a different one, and if it works, he'll know his keyboard is going bad.